Everything Is Everything (Diana Ross album)

Everything Is Everything is the second album by Diana Ross, released in 1970. After her self-named album and its accompanying two singles, Motown rushed the release of this album. It reached #42 in the USA (#5 R&B) and sold over 200,000 copies.[1]

Everything Is Everything
Studio album by
Diana Ross
ReleasedNovember 3, 1970
Recorded1970
GenrePop, Soul
Length40:13
LabelMotown
MS 724
ProducerDeke Richards, Hal Davis
Diana Ross chronology
Diana Ross
(1970)		 Everything Is Everything
(1970)		 Diana!
(1971)
Singles from Everything Is Everything
  1. "I'm Still Waiting"
    Released: July 1971
  2. "Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo"
    Released: April 1972

The track "I'm Still Waiting" was a UK #1 single in 1971 for four weeks while the follow up "Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo" peaked at her UK #12. Her rendering of Aretha Franklin's "Call Me (I Love You)" was nominated for a Grammy in 1971 in the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category.

Deke Richards was commissioned to produce "Everything is Everything" as slightly more pop than her soulful debut with Ashford & Simpson and the album included cover versions of contemporary hits by The Beatles and The Carpenters.

An expanded edition of the album featuring remixes and unreleased outtakes had its first CD release in the US on April 18, 2008. It includes another Beatles cover ("Something") as well as "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" also recorded by Barbra Streisand.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[3]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "My Place" (Hal Davis, Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino) – 2:46
  2. "Ain't No Sad Song" (Hal Davis, "The Bear", Chico Ross) – 2:42
  3. "Everything Is Everything" (Margaret Gordy) – 2:27
  4. "Baby It's Love" (Marvin Gaye, Anna Gordy Gaye, Charles Laskey) – 3:09
  5. "I'm Still Waiting" (Deke Richards) – 3:44
  6. "Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo" (Deke Richards) – 4:52

Side B
  1. "Come Together" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:40
  2. "The Long and Winding Road" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:26
  3. "I Love You (Call Me)" (Aretha Franklin) – 3:23
  4. "How About You?" (Deke Richards, Sandra Sanders, David Van De Pitte) – 2:47
  5. "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:07

2008 expanded edition bonus tracks
  1. "I Wish I Knew" (Debbie Dean, Deke Richards) – 3:30
  2. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:25
  3. "Something" (George Harrison) – 3:11
  4. "Ain't No Sad Song" (Hal Davis, Berry Gordy, Diana Ross) – 3:16
  5. "Baby It's Love" (Alternate version) (Marvin Gaye, Anna Gordy Gaye, Charles Laskey) – 3:42
  6. "Come Together" (1982 "Revelations" remix) (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:04
  7. "I'm Still Waiting" (1990 Phil Chill remix) (Deke Richards) – 4:08

Singles
Year Single Chart positions[4]
US US
R&B		 UK
1971 "I'm Still Waiting" 63 40 1
1972 "Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoobe, Doobedood'ndoo" — — 12
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References
  1. http://www.greasylake.org/the-circuit/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F116321-the-supremes-diana-ross-stevie-wonder-and-ray-charlesusa-album-sales%2F
  2. Planer, Lindsay. Everything Is Everything > review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. "Diana Ross US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
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